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"In Spain, the tech industry is clashing with farmers and environmental activists. Amazon’s three new planned data centers in the Aragon region are licensed to use 755,720 cubic meters of water annually, enough to irrigate more than 570 acres of farmland."

“These data centers use water that comes from northern Aragon, where I am,” said farmer Chechu Sánchez, speaking to The Guardian. “They consume water — where do they take it from? They take it from you, of course.”

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The US Courts, Kosmos, and Comedy.

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Venus, which Kosmos 842 failed to reach some 50 years ago The People v. Donald Trump, Surely This Donald Trump doesn't want to spend money authorized by the US Congress. Is that legal? If so, is it right in terms of the checks and balances on the executive…



Der Verfassungsschutz argumentiert damit, dass die AfD den Corona-Staat als „Diktatur“ bezeichnete apollo-news.net/der-verfassung… In den Gutachten des Bundesamtes für Verfassungsschutz wird der AfD unter anderem vorgeworfen, dass die Partei in den Corona-Jahren die ...
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The regulation of emotion recognition in the EU AI Act shows a dangerous reversal of the precautionary principle. Despite the premise in recital 44 – ‘there are serious concerns about the scientific basis of AI systems aiming to identify or infer emotions […]’ – emotion recognition is prohibited only in very delimited cases. This policy choice is one of many indicators of the gradual weakening of the pillars of the European democratic society.

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la lobby della IA statunitense picchia duro e il nuovo Parlamento Europeo così come la nuova Commissione Europea è molto peggiore rispetto al precedente. Dovremmo chiederci Come fare per esercitare pressioni su Parlamento e commissione, prima che diventiamo il più ricco parco buoi su cui sperimentare le loro tecnologie



From Project Gutenberg:

Notes and Queries, Number 40, August 3, 1850

by Various

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Anything built on so many lies cannot be good: clean, green, renewable, sustainable. Lies, lies, lies.

“There’s no such thing as clean energy,” he tells us in the title of the introduction to his buzzkill of a new book, Power Metal: The Race for the Resources That Will Shape the Future (2024).

“Renewable” energy sources and the devices and batteries that they power are, Beiser warns, “spawning massive environmental damage, political upheaval, mayhem, and murder.”

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Kosmos 428 Landing hypothetical scenario. byteseu.com/998261/ #Astrobiology #Astrophysics #Cosmology #PlanetaryScience #Space #SpaceExploration #SpaceTechnology


37% Of U.S. Adults Say Real Estate Is the Best Long-Term Investment, Gold Comes In Second At 23%… Bitcoin? Just 4%. Feels Early byteseu.com/998259/ #Crypto #CryptoCurrency #Currency



This opera tells the story of 'The Central Park Five,' Donald Trump's role included


In 1989, Trump took out full-page newspaper ads demanding the death penalty "for roving bands of wild criminals." The Detroit Opera decided to program this work long before the presidential election.

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You can incur the wrath of #MAGA by doing nothing more than quoting the words the Bible attributes to Jesus.

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Hmm. Ich wünschte, ich hätte mit meiner Mama auch so spielen können.
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I hope it also includes APL (or one of the conventional-font descendants).

When I started doing a lot of image processing with Python and numpy, I picked up an APL book just to get into a matrix frame of mind. I didn’t program in APL, but thinking in terms of matrix operations instead of loops led to some radical optimizations in the code I was working on.

(I picked up APL because, decades earlier I heard Guy Steele, who was then working on the Fortran 9X standard as a representative for a massively-parallel-processor company, discuss how much inspiration he took from APL when thinking about parallel programming primitives.)